Q. The home of the Gandhara school of art is the territory in and around Peshawar in northwestern India. The best of the Gandhara sculpture was produced during the first and second centuries A.D. Consider the following sentences regarding features of Gandhara art.
1. Moulding human body in a realistic manner with minute attention to physical features like muscles, moustache and curtly hair.
2. Thick drapery with large and bold fold lines.
3. The Buddha images exhibit the spiritual feeling on his face.4. Rich carving, elaborate ornamentation and symbolic expressions.
Which of the above feature(s) of Gandhara art is/ are not correct?
1) 1 and 2
2) 2, 3 and 4
3) 3 Only
4) 4 Only
Q. With reference to the ancient Indian texts which of the following statements is correct -
1. Most ancient Indian texts contain religious themes.
2. The Rig Veda mainly consists of prayers.
3. The Upanishads contain philosophical discussion on atma and parmatma.
Select the correct answer using the code given below :
1) 1 and 2 only
2) 3 only
3) 2 and 3 only
4) 1, 2 and 3
Q. Which of the following commissions in the British era had made recommendations for a change in the pattern of diarchy introduced under Government of India Act, 1919?
1) Simon Commission
2) Sapru Commission
3) Butler Commission
4) Muddiman Committee
Q. Who was the Governor General of British India at the time of Simon Commission and Nehru Report?
1) Lord Rippon
2) Lord Kornowalis
3) Lord Irwin
4) Lord Mountbatten
Q. Who called Mahatma Gandhi as Mahatma for the first time?
1) Jawaharlal Nehru
2) Rabindranath Tagore
3) Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose
4) Sardar Vallabh Bhai Patel
Q. Who founded the Indian Independence League at California?
1) Madan Lal Dhingra
2) Shyamji Krishna Varma
3) Tarak Nath Das
4) Surendra Nath Bandyopadhyay
Q. Which greatest leader of the Indian national movement wrote History of the Indian National Congress?
1) Motilal Nehru
2) Sarojini Naidu
3) Pattabhi Sitaramayya
4) J B Kripalani
Q. Who is the writer of a famous travelogue Rihla in Arabic?
1) Ibn Battuta
2) Al Biruni
3) Megasthenis
4) Dara Shikoh
Q. Which freedom fighter edited The Dawn of India (an english daily) and Dainik Basumati (a Bengali daily)?
1) Barindra Kumar Ghosh
2) Aurobindo Ghosh
3) Bipin Chandra Pal
4) Rammohan Roy
Q. The Satapatha Brahmana and Taitriya Brahmana are the Brahmana texts of -
1) Rigveda
2) Yajurveda
3) Samaveda
4) Atharavaveda
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